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Extraordinary child : poems from a South Indian devotional genre /

For hundreds of years Tamil poets have been composing devotional texts in which they adopt the voice of a mother and address praises to an extraordinary child. The poems, called pillaittamil (literally "Tamil for a child"), form a major genre of Tamil literature. Since the twelfth century,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Richman, Paula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Tamil
Publicado: Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1997.
Colección:SHAPS library of translations.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. How to Read a Pillaittamil. 1. Extraordinary Child. 2. Asking for the Moon, Taming the Tiger
  • pt. 2. Pillaittamils for Reading. 3. The Florescence. 4. A Temple and a Pillaittamil. 5. The Hindu Monastic Milieu. 6. A Pillaittamil to Muhammad. 7. One Poet's Baby Jesus. 8. Poetry of Cultural Nationalism
  • pt. 3. Reflections on Pillaittamils. 9. The Fruits of Reading Pillaittamils. Appendix. Descriptions of Pillaittamils in Texts about Poetics.